Queer Korea (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited By Jack Halberstam And Lisa Lowe)

Features of Queer Korea (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe)

Since the end of the nineteenth century the Korean people have faced successive waves of foreign domination authoritarian regimes forced dispersal and divided development Throughout these turbulent times queer Koreans were ignored minimized and erased in narratives of their modern nation East Asia and the wider world This interdisciplinary volume challenges such marginalization through critical analyses of nonnormative sexuality and gender variance Considering both personal and collective forces the contributors extend individualized notions of queer neoliberalism beyond those typically set in Western queer theory Along the way they recount a range of illuminating topics from shamanic rituals during the colonial era and Bgrade comedy films under Cold War dictatorship to female masculinity among todays youth and transgender confrontations with the resident registration system More broadly Queer Korea offers readers new ways of understanding the limits and possibilities of human liberation under exclusionary conditions of modernity in Asia and beyondContributors Pei Jean Chen John Song Pae Cho Chungkang Kim Todd A Henry Merose Hwang Ruin Layoung Shin Shinae Ha John Whittier Treat